12 Facts About Dani Filth

Dani Filth married Toni King on 31 October 2005 in Ipswich.

Dani Filth has been lending his voice to the band Devilment, a side project that has taken off into a full-time job in between Cradle records.

Dani Filth named Judas Priest, Venom, Emperor, Destruction, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Sabbat, Misfits, Paradise Lost and Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas among his major influences.

At the age of eighteen, Dani Filth took up a job at a Chinese restaurant.

Dani Filth later chose his career in music over an internship at a newspaper, although his "Dani's Inferno" column ran for two years in Metal Hammer during the late 1990s.

Dani Filth has co-written and released The Gospel of Filth with Gavin Baddeley.

The book, which Dani Filth describes as an "occult study," features contributions from Clive Barker, Christopher Lee and Ingrid Pierson.

Away from Cradle, Dani Filth appeared on the Roadrunner United CD in 2005, and recorded the song " The Mother of Tears" with Claudio Simonetti and Simonetti's band Daemonia, for the soundtrack of Dario Argento's film The Mother of Tears.

Dani Filth participated in the Temple of the Black Moon project in 2012 with guitarist Rob Caggiano, black metal musician King ov Hell on bass, and drummer John Tempesta.

In 2000, Dani Filth appeared in the movie Cradle of Fear as The Man, a deranged psychopath taking revenge on his father's persecutors.

Dani Filth has appeared on the American series Viva La Bam in 2005, and was interviewed for two episodes of the Metal Evolution series, on shock rock and extreme metal in 2012 and 2014 respectively.

Scottish death metal band Party Cannon dedicated Dani the song "I Believe in Dani Filth", released in December 2021 with an animated version of Dani in a Street Fighter-styled video.